MEXICO CITY: A GLOBAL CAPITAL

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Spring Break Study Abroad Program March 9 - 18, 2018

Program Director Dr. Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste: [email protected]

Program Description The Georgia State University spring break program in City is an exciting ten-day program in Mexico’s capital city. While immersed in the urban scene of the Mexican capital, students will attend hourly seminar sessions taught by the program director from Monday through Thursday. In addition to regular seminar time, students will be required to participate in all of the following field trips, excursions, and visits to historical sites: Teotihuacán Pyramids and Temple of Quetzalcoátl (lunch included) Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe The Plaza of Three Cultures (Tlatelolco) National The Zócalo (main city square) Cathedral Aztec Application Information Casa de los The program is open to undergraduate students Fine Arts Museum who meet all academic requirements of Georgia National History Museum ( ) State University’s College of Arts and Sciences Capilla Riveriana at Chapingo and have taken at least a year of introductory Soumaya Museum Spanish. Program size is limited and National Anthropology Museum participation is contingent upon acceptance by The Blue House (Frida Kahlo’s home) the program director. Students interested in Universidad Iberoamericana (lunch included, visit to local NGO) applying should find this program’s listing at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, visit to library) mystudyabroad.gsu.edu and begin an online Tianguis del Chopo application. Biblioteca Vasconcelos Transient Students: please see the Transient Each activity will be accompanied by corresponding discussions and Student tab on the How to Apply page on our assignments. If a student is unable to attend any of the activities due to website. illness or any other reason, he/she may be assigned a make-up activity by International students at Georgia State who the program director. hold F-1 visas must contact the Office of International Students and Scholar Services at (404) 413-2070 to discuss possible implications of study abroad for their immigration status. Application Deadline: October 31, 2017 STUDY ABROAD IN MARCH 9 - 18, 2018 TENTATIVE PROGRAM ITINERARY

Atlanta, GA

Day 1 Mandatory pre- departure orientation (10am- 12pm) Location: TBA

Day 2 Depart Atlanta

Mexico City, Accommodations Mexico Participants will stay for nine nights at Hotel Roosevelt in Colonia

Day 3 Bazar de San Ángel, Condesa, a comfortable, double-occupancy hotel near México City’s Zócalo, Templo Mayor, historic Paseo de . Breakfast is included. Metropolitan Cathedral, Palacio Nacional, , and Palacio de Bellas Courses and Credits Artes Participants who successfully complete the program’s course will Day 4 Tlatelolco Pyramids at Teotihuacán, Basilica de receive three semester hours of course credit at Georgia State Guadalupe University. Students should register for SPAN 3395. Students from Day 5 Class seminar Visit to other institutions should follow their institution’s regulations Universidad Iberoamericana, CONFE (NGO) concerning transfer credits.

Day 6 Class seminar Visit to Program Cost UNAM’s library, Visit to Coyoacán (Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo Museum) The program cost is tentatively set at $1,900 PLUS regular Georgia State tuition and fees. Non-resident/out-of-state students Day 7 Class seminar, Capilla Riveriana at Chapingo, Museo will pay in-state tuition plus a $250 fee in addition to program cost. . Soumaya For more information on what the program cost does and does not Day 8 Class seminar include, please visit: 7 http://www.studyabroad.gsu.edu/?go=CASMexCity 1

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